For this week we are required to talk about copy rights and intellectual property and how the web has effected these aspects of ownership. For one I think that the web has made copy rights allot more complicated. I say this because people can easily steal other peoples works and re brand them as their […]

For this week we have been talking about the internet and the world wide web, and how they have come to be as well as how they have changed. Their development was disgusted and it allowed us to look into the technologies and people responsible for the net. One of those people is J.C.R. Licklider, essentially […]

The intellectual leap in computer design from massive devices that filled rooms all the way down to the smart phones in our pockets today is really thanks to several technological advancements as well as some public interest. First and for most the single most important advancement that happened to the electronic computers was the transistor. […]

The origins of the modern digital computer come from a vast span of time and technological development. Many of the original devices were never constructed (theoretical) but were non the less helpful for other engineers in developing other computational devices of their own. The first devices used to compute are believed to be Astrolabes, devices […]

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The difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web is explained a lot throughout the material this week. Narrowing it down in my own words the internet to my knowledge is what connects one computer to another. The web is what we surf while using the internet. The web needs the internet in order […]

I found Lickliders article prophetic in the ways in which he described technology and its uses within the workplace, and also socially. However, I thought that he missed the mark psychologically, and in certain (central) ways in which computers are used. Interestingly, at the beginning of the article Licklider seemed to sense the very sentiment […]

Licklider’s article highlights the framework of the modern internet, and in this way I believe it was a form of a self fulfilling prophecy. For a basic demonstration he had of what essentially amounted to a powerpoint on shared screens with a phone conference for talking, and given that the article was written in 1968, […]